22
Friday, March 22, 1985
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
BUMPING
4-
PAINT
LOCAL NEWS
Town Meeting Speakers
Give Education Priority
BY ALAN HITSKY
News Editor
PROMPT & EXPERIENCED
SATISFACTION ASSURED
insurance estimates accepted
expert color match, foreign & American
TOWING & RENTAL CARS AVAILABLE
La
Salle Body Shop Inc.
28829 Orchard Lake__Road, Farmington
48018
MAX FLEISCHER
BETWEEN 12 & 13 Mile Rd.
40■1■1111.,
Its what you've been waiting for!
professional treatment of
a cut, sprain, fever, or
minor injury, find out
how prompt and
personalized that
attention can be.
Treat your problem
with Express Care.
It's called EXPRESS CARE.
And it's Providence
Hospital's new
concept of no more
waiting for minor
emergency care.
Next time someone in
your family needs
Another healthy idea from Providence Hospital.
CAR
Providence Hospital
16001 W. Nine Mile
P.O. Box 2043
Southfield, MI 4W37
Atone 424-3:333
!Ail(
4 p.m. to 11 p.m • Monday titre Frttlav
11 a.m. to 11 p.m. -Saturday and Sunday
Use the Et»cr,,,cncy Entrance"
01985 Providence Hospital
RD
553 7111
-
Increased funding for Jewish
education and continuity were the
keynote themes of all 14 speakers
who took advantage of the Jewish
Welfare Federation's unique
"Community Town Meeting on
Budgeting Priorities" Wednesday
night.
Federation President Joel
Tauber lauded the audience of 150
for their input before the budget-
ing process begins for allocations
from the 1985 Campaign.
Education was the main theme
of the speakers from the floor.
Leonard Wanetik told the two-
hour meeting at the Jewish
Community Center that "by un-
dercutting day school education
we are undercutting our future.
Tuition is now $3,000 per year.
With this tuition we have
excluded many. As tuition con-
tinues to go up, we will exclude
more."
Wanetik lauded the earlier re-
marks by James August, who
chairs the conference of Division
Chairmen for the Jewish Welfare
Federation, but added that Fed-
eration must increase its expendi-
tures for Jewish education. His
words were echoed by Barry
Levine, Harry Freind, Ronnie
Schreiber, Michael Maddin, Dr.
Bill Beres and Dr. Dan Guyer.
Levine, education director for
Cong. Beth Abraham Hillel
Moses, and Freind requested
funding from the Allied Jewish
Campaign. Freind said the 1,100
students at United Hebrew
Schools are supported by
$900,000 in Campaign funds,
while Beth Abraham Hillel Moses
and Cong. Beth Shalom "have
roughly 40 percent of that enroll-
ment and get nothing."
Schreiber commented that
educators should not have to fight
over funding. He advocated
"counting the number of students
here, figure out how much it will
take to educate them and estab-
lish a system to do it." He said,
"Soviet Jews risk their lives to
educate their children as Jews.
We must do the same."
Norman Naimark made two
brief statements during the meet-
ing, advocating funding for a gen-
eral outreach program aimed at
young Jews and for increasing
aliyah.
Avrum Borenstein called for
Federation-funded mortgage
loans to stabilize the Oak Park
neighborhoods. He argued that
the Jewish community will have
to spend $100 million if it is forced
to replace all the synagogues,
Jewish institutions and stores
that are now located in Oak Park.
Milton Marwil immediately
commented that Hebrew Free
Loan will provide up to $4,000 in
interest-free loans for this pur-
pose, "but we wouldn't mind a
Federation subvention" to in-
crease the size of the loans.
Increased funding for the "50
percent of the 75,000 Jews in De-
troit who are single" was re-
quested by Jerry Stein. He said
the SPACE program of the Na-
tional Council of Jewish Women
is mandated not to be a social
organization, B'nai B'rith youth
programs have little continuity
into the adult programs, and the
singles programs at the Jewish
Community Center are under-
staffed.
"The need," he said, "is not
$5,000 but $150,000 for coor-
dinators and staff to get our sing-
les together. Otherwise, we will
be assimilated."
Hillel Foundation programs at
area colleges were endorsed by
two speakers. Millie Rosenbaum,
in the briefest statement of the
evening, said, "The University of
Michigan Hillel is doing more
than ever before and needs a good
allocation to keep it up." Robert
Oppenheimer, outreach worker at
Wayne State Hillel, said the pro-
grams at Wayne, Oakland and
Michigan State "are grossly un-
derstaffed." He said there is a
"hole in Jewish communal pro-
gramming after kids reach 18."
Michael Hochheiser sought
funding for Parents for Torah for
All Children (PTACH), which
provides Jewish educational pro-
gramming for mentally-impaired
children.
Avrum Borenstein
argued for
Federation-backed
mortgage loans to
stabilize Oak Park.
"We have a $50,000 budget, but
we barely make it," he told the
audience. "Thank God we only
have a few kids, but our expenses
are high."
A request for funding of the his-
torical research projects of the
Jewish Historical Society of
Michigan was made by Stan
Meretsky.
Michael Maddin, a Hillel Day
School parent and president of the
Fresh Air Society, made a strong
statement on behalf of both edu-
cational and camping programs.
"It's no secret that the community
is shrinking," he pointd out. "We
can't continue to do things the
way we are right now. We have to
do even more."
The public's comments were
preceded by three ten-minute pre-
sentations on funds available
from the Allied Jewish Campaign
and where the dollars are cur-
rently spent. Federation
President Joel Tauber presided as
Robert Naftaly, Martin Citrin
and August spoke.
With less than two weeks before
the conclusion of the 1985 Allied
Jewish Campaign, $17.6 million
has been pledged. Campaign co-
chairman Naftaly said the Cam-
paign will be just shy of its $22.5
million goal if the 7,000 former
contributors remaining to be con-
tacted give the same amounts
they did last year.
He added that $750,000 — half
the Detroit goal— has been raised
separately for Operation Moses to
resettle Ethiopian Jews in Israel.
Citrin, a past president of Fed-
eration and immediate past
president of the Council of Jewish
Federations, described overseas
needs, focusing on the Joint Dis-
tribution Committee and the